Michael Lai, MD
Retina Specialist · Chevy Chase, MDNPI 1962432260
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 272 payments — averaging $5818.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$1.6M
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$23K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$842
- Genentech USA, Inc.$721
- plus $1K from 13 others
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 170 | $1,551,398 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 7 | $22,915 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $3,204 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 10 | $2,118 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 18 | $842 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 18 | $721 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $409 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $241 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $132 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Novartis | 4 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Abbott | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $34 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $26 |
How this compares
$1,582,646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 47 retina specialist providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other retina specialist in Chevy Chase
- Brian DoChevy Chase$1.1M
- Gayatri ReillyChevy Chase$957K
- Richard GarfinkelChevy Chase$16K
- Daniel BerinsteinChevy Chase$1K
- Adam GerstenblithHagerstown$8.6M
- Michael ElmanBaltimore$304K
- Rohit LakhanpalOwings Mills$168K
- Aziz KhanifarSilver Spring$83K
- Joshua LevinsonGreenbelt$67K
- Reginald SandersGreenbelt$24K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.